Caren Krutsinger Poet Free verse

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In Honor of Angela My Veteran

I am wearing my red white and blue stars jacket.
It is totally patriotic, and this is Veteran’s Day.
A bunch of children have spotted my daughter’s picture in military uniform.
One asks me “is she still alive?”
She was this morning when she asked me not to text her at five a.m. I replied.
How old is she? One of them asks. She looks old – seventeen.
She is forty-nine and a half, but I look at her photo.
She was twenty-two I say. Not willing to tell them her current age.
It is difficult to be forty when you have a forty-nine-year-old daughter.

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L Milton Hankins November 12, 2021 at 9:04 AM She has incredible eyes, doesn't she? They look like they are staring right at me! Caren, surely you know that children have little concept of age and aging. "She looks old - seventeen." And you probably look ancient to them! Caren Krutsinger November 12, 2021 at 1:01 PM I tell them I am 104 and they laugh but they LOVE thinking that I am 104. She does have incredible blue eyes. She is the only daughter we have with this color of blue eyes. One has hazel like both of us, and the other one has gray-green eyes. Three daughters, very different in looks and eyes.

Eve Roper November 11, 2021 at 11:00 PM Yes it is hard to say you have a daughter that age ;) mine are 52 and 50 Caren Krutsinger November 12, 2021 at 2:43 AM Mine are 49.5, 48 and 44. Because I have 3 daughters